harmonic complexity

Wilson's Harmonic Complexity function of a ratio is the sum of the prime factors greater than 2, considering all of the exponents as positive. The complexity of a set of ratios is the complexity of the modified Least Common Multiple of the factors.

[from John Chalmers, Divisions of the Tetrachord. See Chapter V for examples.]

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